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U-boats UB107 She was a new boat, sent to the north east coast for training and had spent two unsuccessful cruises to this area. ON July 26 1918, UB107 set out on its last journey, for the next day observers on board a motor launch off Scarborough spotted her. Three trawlers and the destroyer Vanessa set out to hunt the marauder and when the submarine broke surface in heavy weather, the patrol trawler Calvia, and the vanessa, attacked with depth charges and succeeded in raising air bubbles and oil from the submarine. Next morning a headless body was found and it was concluded that the UB107 had been disposed of. but no uboat as ever been found in this well searched area. In 1974 divers found the wreck of a submarine at Flamborough Head, lying in 26m of water and apparently lying across the stern of a merchant ship wreck.this is thirty miles south of the reported sinking. One pf the propellers of the submarine bore the stamping UB107 and so the sinking off Scarborough remains somewhat of an enigma. UB30 On August 13 1918 275 ton UB30 fell victim to the armed patrol trawler John Gillman while attacking shipping off Whitby and was sunk by a combination of depth charging and shelling. UB30 had torpedoed the steamer Madame Renee off Scarborough only three days previously. UC70 On August 28 1918, the 420 ton UC70 was spotted by a patrolling sea plane off Whitby following up a sighting of an oil slick in the area of the sinking of the UB30. Very lights were dropped along the trackof the submarine as it submerged and a 520ib bomb was dropped into the sea, inflicting the damage on the craft. The destroyer Ouse following up the flare track, completed the attack with a pattern of 10 depth charges set at 50ft. Divers later found the wreck of the UC70. She had left Zeebrugge seven days earlier for Whitby and had probably accounted for the Giralda at Runswick on the day of the attack. Please click here to return to the North Sea Wrecks Directory Page |
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